The Reading Room The Unforeseen Consequences Affair by Cein

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Angst, drama, friendship and devotion... it's all here.  I remember reading this story for the first time and thinking what a great episode it would have been, very much in the vein of 60's TV drama.  Of course it seems as though it was the westerns that usually had these types of really dramatic situations, but these are our 'cowboys' and this story will leave you wishing the actors could have played this one out onscreen.
The Unseen Consequences Affair by cein

SNAPSHOTS ~ "His own kind of luck"

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It was raining...it seemed to be doing that all the time. Not a driving downpour mind you, more of a soft misting rain. One would think that would be cooling in such a tropical place, but it only added to the oppresive humidity.

Illya Kuryakin was alone.  He’d lost all his U.N.C.L.E. devices and weapons, the most precious of these being his communicator.

He had no way of calling for help and hadn’t eaten in three days. His last meal had been…he couldn’t remember. What was it? Oh yes, roasted snake that he’d managed to beat to death with a stick.

He didn’t have a single peso in his pocket, not that there were many place to buy food here. It was no use begging or stealing as the area...he didn’t even know where it was, was so desperately poor that people lived in ramshakle huts, made of pieced together bits of wood and corrugated metal.

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